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ARANGO
Gonzalo
Arango Arias born in Andes, Antioquia 1931 - Tocancipá, Cundinamarca 1976, was
a Colombian poet, journalist and philosopher. During a repressive phase of
government in the 1940s he led a literary movement known as Nadaismo
(Nothing-ism) Other young Colombian thinkers of his generation in the movement
inspired by the Colombian philosopher Fernando González Ochoa.
Arango's
life includes contrasts from an open atheism to an intense spirituality, and a
strong criticism of the society of his time. Those contrasts can be read in the
First Manifesto of Nadaísmo as "The artist is considered sometimes a
symbol fluctuation between holiness and madness".
In 1947 he
began to study Law in the University of Antioquia, but three years later he
left the studies to devote himself to writing, starting with his first work
" After the Man ".
Arango died
in a tragic car accident in the city of Tocancipá in 1976 when he was planning
to move to London so that "by losing me, Colombians win me".
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